Plant rediscovered from a forest region that lies less than 5 km from Chooralmala and Mundakkai, the sites of the deadly landslides of July 30, 2024, say researchers
A parasitic plant with vibrant orange and yellow flowers that was long thought extinct in the wild has been rediscovered after around 175 years from Kerala’s Wayanad district.
Researchers have identified the plant, first collected and described in 1849 from Naduvattam in Tamil Nadu by the Scottish Botanist Robert Wight, as Campbellia aurantiaca (family Orobanchaceae). The plant has now been rediscovered from a forest region that lies less than five km from Chooralmala and Mundakkai, the sites of the deadly landslides of July 30, 2024.